Hello Let's Encrypt! New Here, saying hi, setting up mediawiki server for a college

I'm not sure I'd recommend that, actually. Bitnami seems to come with its own Apache that's separate from Debian's standard one, and installing python-certbot-apache will pull in the latter as a dependency, causing all manner of confusion. I'd suggest installing just the certbot package instead, and using the --webroot plugin.

There's a rather long thread about Bitnami and Debian here:

(in light of which, I'm not convinced that using Bitnami is really "taking the easy way" :stuck_out_tongue:)